Location: Cement Creek Area
Date of Observation: 04/04/2019
Name: DK

Subject: Wet Slab
Aspect: East, South East
Elevation: 9k

Avalanches:

Found an older wet slab on a SE facing slope around 9k. Probably slid the same day as the ones a little further up the valley in the first narrows.

Weather: Partly cloudy this morning with enough solar on E-SE slopes to produce pinwheels in the upper 1″ of fresh snow around 9:30am.

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Location: Crested Butte Area
Date of Observation: 04/04/2019
Name: Ben Ammon

Subject: Whetstone Axtell Carbon
Aspect: North, North East, East, South East, South, South West, West, North West
Elevation: 9000′-12,500′

Avalanches:

Intentionally skier triggered several wet loose slides on a S aspect of Axtell. D1, entraining only the new snow.
Also, saw evidence of the very large avalanches on W aspects of Whetstone and E aspects of Carbon [from March cycle]. E aspect of Carbon had snapped large aspens ~1/3 mile uphill on the opposite side of the valley. Carbon creek buried under substantial debris.
Will email pics of Carbon and Whetstone slides because they’re cool!

Weather: Broken skies moving to scattered around 1130. Light winds from the W, calm in the valleys.

Snowpack: No signs of instability on W and NW aspects of Whetstone.
New snow was wet on S, SE, E aspects of Axtell, snow beneath MF crust was still dry.
Observed two small collapses on small, isolated slopes, NE aspect of Carbon around 11,500′. These slopes were above and near areas that obviously slid during the March cycle, but were lower angle and had not slid. Skied a NE aspect on Carbon and saw no signs of windslabs on NE or E aspects ATL.

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Location: Kebler Pass Area
Date of Observation: 04/03/2019
Name: Steve Banks

Subject: North-Northeast Near and Below Treeline
Aspect: North, North East
Elevation: 10,500

Avalanches:

None observed

Weather: Overcast skies with heavy snowfall at times, or none at times. Light winds from the West.

Snowpack: New snow up to 4″ quickly consolidating on solar slopes with some radiation. Very supportive snowpack and still soft, good skiing on shady slopes. Southerly slopes had a 2″ crust below the new snow, though bonding seemed to be ok. Below the crust was weaker, faceted snow.
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Location: Crested Butte Area
Date of Observation: 04/03/2019
Name: billy bar

Subject: Glide avalanche near Gothic
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Location: Kebler Pass Area
Date of Observation: 04/03/2019
Name: Eric Murrow

Subject: Speedy dry sloughs near treeline
Aspect: North, North East
Elevation: 9200′-12000′

Avalanches:

Observed several natural, tree bomb triggered, dry loose. Skier triggered numerous dry loose in steep, NTL terrain.

Weather: Cloudy skies with periods of snow, heavy at times. New snow accumulations at 12,000 feet, 1pm was 4 inches. Winds were lighter than expected, under 15mph while in open terrain at 12k. Visibility was limited but hung out for 30 minutes in open ATL terrain and observed almost no transport.

Snowpack: Visibility was too poor to venture into terrain with possible Wind Slab development. Skiing in steep NTL protected terrain produced fast moving shallow sloughs. Sloughs were able to entrain just a small amount of old snow at NTL elevation. Snow surface remained dry on northerly slopes down to about 10,400′ before becoming moist.

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